MY MIND WORKS

MY MIND WORKS WHILE I SLEEP How I Removed 99.99% of the Noise From My Life—and Discovered That a Mind Trained Around Purpose Can Continue Creating, Designing and Solving Even in Dreams What if your greatest ideas do not always arrive while you are trying to think? On 27 August 2026, during an ordinary one-hour Rakhi holiday afternoon nap, Dr. Abhishek Gilara saw an extraordinary creative in his dream. A shirt. But not merely a shirt. He saw the model. The physique. The fitted white trousers. The shoes. The pose. The ambience. The complete presentation. He woke, remembered what he had seen, translated the memory into prompts and used modern creative technology to recreate the design. It became his first defined garment designed in a dream. But this was not his first experience of purposeful ideas entering sleep. Jewellery came first. Then books. Then business strategies. And now clothing. That raised a much bigger question: WHY WAS HIS SLEEPING MIND RETURNING TO THE SAME FEW SUBJECTS THAT DOMINATED HIS WAKING PURPOSE? This book is Dr. Gilara’s exploration of that question. Drawing from his decades inside Indian jewellery and craftsmanship, extensive writing journey, business experience, fitness discipline, highly structured lifestyle, experiments with radical elimination of distractions and emerging research on sleep, memory and creativity, he proposes a powerful idea: PERHAPS YOUR DREAM DOES NOT BEGIN WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES. PERHAPS YOU HAVE BEEN PREPARING IT FOR YEARS WHILE THEY WERE OPEN. Research from MIT and Harvard Medical School has shown that the transition into sleep can be a particularly interesting state for creative cognition, and controlled experiments with targeted dream incubation have found enhanced post-sleep creativity when dream content is directed toward a theme. (MIT Media Lab⁠) But this is not a book about sleeping less. It is not about forcing yourself to work twenty-four hours. And it is not a claim that every dream contains a hidden solution. It is something more practical. It is a book about: ATTENTION. ELIMINATION. PURPOSE. REPETITION. DISCIPLINE. HEALTH. SLEEP. CREATIVITY. IDENTITY. SELF-DESIGN. At the heart of the book is Dr. Gilara’s 0.01% philosophy: Do not try to participate in everything life offers. Ruthlessly remove what does not belong to your purpose so that the few things that matter can receive extraordinary depth. When most people are trying to add more, this book asks: WHAT IF THE NEXT UPGRADE OF YOUR MIND REQUIRES REMOVING MORE? Fewer unnecessary calls. Fewer distractions. Fewer meaningless conversations. Fewer random information streams. Fewer priorities. Less mental noise. More space. More depth. More attention. More clarity. Because perhaps the mind becomes most powerful not when it is filled with everything— but when it becomes unmistakably clear about what matters. This is the story of one shirt designed during one afternoon nap. But beneath that shirt lies a much larger question: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SPEND YEARS DELIBERATELY DESIGNING THE MIND THAT DOES THE DESIGNING? Perhaps the dream lasted only minutes. The preparation may have taken a lifetime. ⸻ BUILD THE DAY. RESPECT THE NIGHT. PROTECT YOUR ATTENTION. TRAIN YOUR MIND AROUND PURPOSE. AND NEVER STOP DISCOVERING WHAT IT MAY STILL BE CAPABLE OF.